Medical Director
Cornell Rehabilitatuon Institute Bethesda East Baptist Health South Florida
Marcalee Alexander graduated Jefferson Medical College in 1983 and completed her residency in PM&R there. She has spent most of her career working in spinal cord injury and was the first female president of ASIA. She has published over 125 articles and chapters in professional journals and is currently the editor of the journal Spinal Cord Series and Cases.
Throughout most of her career, her research has focused on sexuality and spinal cord injury and she is known for performing significant laboratory-based research outlining the impact of specific neurologic injuries on sexual response and for lecturing frequently on sexuality and spinal cord injury. In 2018, she published an ebook entitled Sexual Sustainability, A Guide to Having a Great Sex Life with a Spinal Cord Disorder so that consumers could directly access information on the topic. Over the past 15 years she has also had an interest in telemedicine, and she currently has a sexuality telehealth clinic at Spaulding rehabilitation hospital.
Currently, Dr. Alexander is focusing her time on bringing attention to the impact of climate change on persons with disabilities. In , she and her husband Craig took a break from full time practice to start a walk from Canada to Key West to bring attention to the issues of persons of disabilities in climate change through educating both professionals and communities. During this time, she developed the concept of Day for Tomorrow, a day when people can come together in community to prepare for disasters and climate change. She is planning to continue this work and is also organizing a summit with leaders from the climate change field called Sustain Our Abilities to be held in April 2021. The goal of Sustain Our Abilities to bring together leaders from the climate change and disabilities fields to create a research agenda and foster collaborative actions. In conjunction with a desire to educate people about climate change and disability, Dr. Alexander started a nonprofit called Telerehabilitation International, with a mission to bring attention to climate change and disability and to use telemedicine to start a volunteer network of physiatrists to provide consults for persons with disabilities in areas of disaster relief. More information can be found at telerehabinternational.org.
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Monday, May 18, 2026
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM PT
